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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 27-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ley and Himmler both challenge Speer's authority at Peenemünde during what?
(a) His hospitalization.
(b) His time as leader of the Armaments Ministry.
(c) The Allied bombing.
(d) His visit with his family.

2. When winter closes in on the Russian front, the Soviets destroy what, leaving the Germans unable to resupply themselves?
(a) Roads.
(b) Buses.
(c) Planes.
(d) The railroad system.

3. When the Soviets surround Nikopol, Speer calms Hitler about what?
(a) Stocks of alloy metals for arms.
(b) German armaments.
(c) Illness running rampant in the army.
(d) Germany's military capabilities.

4. When the Cabinet agrees to put all war production under Speer's control, what does Bormann do?
(a) He asks to assist Speer.
(b) He warns Hitler against being drawn into rivalries.
(c) He warns Hitler that Speer is a spy.
(d) He undermines Speer's plans.

5. Hitler calms Speer's fears of an armaments collapse by doing what?
(a) Giving Speer a raise.
(b) Declaring that Speer will straighten things out again.
(c) Having more factories built.
(d) Giving him positive statistics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Speer's exuberance at German successes cool?

2. Ruthless Martin Bormann is master of the mountain. Does anyone sense his threat?

3. Hitler turns to building the autobahn and making Berlin surpass Paris and Vienna in beauty. Hitler specifies an avenue how many yards wide terminated at one end by a great domed meeting hall dwarfing St. Peter's in Rome and at the other by an arch of triumph dwarfing Paris?

4. As Dr. Fritz Todt's Ministry of Armaments faces overwhelming tasks, Speer volunteers to do what?

5. Speer notes that great building in antiquity is normally done by whom?

(see the answer key)

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